Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong has never been shy about sharing his disdain for the Trump administration. During the band’s show on Saturday (Jan. 17) at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, he was at it again, changing the lyrics to his group’s iconic 2004 protest song “American Idiot” once more to express his explicit disdain for the president and his followers.
Swapping out the “I’m not part of the redneck agenda” with “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda,” during “Idiot,” Armstrong moved on to explain during “Holiday” that “this song is anti-fascist. This song is anti-war. We stand up for our brothers and sisters in Minnesota.” The latter appeared to be an explicit show of support in the wake of the chaos and anxiety unleashed in the North Star State over the past few weeks as ICE agents have descended on Minneapolis to enforce the White House’s aggressive immigration agenda.
Since the start of the new year, Trump has surged thousands of ICE agents and members of other federal agencies into Minnesota in one of the largest immigration enforcement operations in U.S. history. In addition to raiding homes, businesses and schools in search of the undocumented, ICE agent Jonathan Ross killed 37-year-old American citizen and mother of three Renee Nicole Good on Jan. 7 when he shot her three times at point-blank range while she appeared to be driving away from him.
Armstrong also switched up the lyrics to “Holiday” — originally a diatribe aimed at then-President George W. Bush and his war in Iraq — by tweaking the line “the representative from California has the floor” to singing, “Ladies and gentlemen, Stephen Miller has now has the floor,” in reference to Trump’s zealous immigration whisperer, White House deputy chief of staff Miller.
Green Day, who are gearing up to kick off next month’s Super Bowl in Santa Clara, Calif. with an opening ceremony performance on Feb. 8 at Levi’s Stadium, have been raging against Trump and his administration for a decade, dating back to the American Music Awards in 2016, when they led a chant of “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist U.S.A.“
They joined fellow outspoken pop star Billie Eilish over the weekend in showing support for the people of Minneapolis amid the surge of federal agents. While accepting the MLK Jr. Beloved Community Award for Environmental Justice on Saturday in Atlanta, Eilish lamented that it was hard to celebrate the honor when, “We’re seeing our neighbors being kidnapped, peaceful protesters being assaulted and murdered, our civil rights being stripped, resources to fight the climate crisis being cut for fossil fuels and animal agriculture destroying our planet, and people’s access to food and healthcare becoming a privilege for the wealthy instead of a new basic human right for all Americans. It is very clear that protecting our planet and our communities is not a priority for this administration. And it’s really hard to celebrate that when we no longer feel safe in our own homes or in our streets.”
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